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Unstable relics as a source of galactic positrons

Pospelov, Maxim; Picciotto, Charles

We calculate the fluxes of 511 keV photons from the galactic bulge caused by positrons produced in the decays of relic particles with masses less than 100 MeV. In particular, we tighten the constraints on sterile neutrinos over a large domain of the mass-mixing angle parameter space, where the resulting photon flux would significantly exceed the e…